Specials will be patrolling at traffic light junctions looking out for those who commit red-light offences.

The LIT (Lights Instead of Tickets) scheme will be in action, which gives those caught riding without lights seven days to buy new lights to avoid paying the fine.

The crackdown is being backed by Sir Graham Bright, Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

He said: “The law is the law, whether you are talking about pedestrians, cyclists or motorists. But there are more bicycles per head of population in Cambridge than almost anywhere else in the world. As a result of concerns that were brought to my attention during my election campaign I asked the Chief Constable to tackle it.

“I want to grow the number of Specials, who I think do an excellent job. Seeing two of the areas I have highlighted working hand in hand is really good.”

Special Superintendent John Haslop said: “This is another chance to educate cyclists and enforce the law. There is a lot of dangerous cycling within Cambridge and we have heard frustration from local residents at neighbourhood meetings where anti-social cycling has been named as a priority.

“We want to tackle this problem and reduce the number of collisions and more than 30 Specials will be working on this operation.”

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Good to see more money wasted.
Remember the last crack down and the pathetically low numbers of offenders they caught?
http://www.reddit.com/r/ukbike/comments/16jqj6/stats_from_the_recent_crack_down_on_antisocial/
Well there's the numbers from a FOI request to the Police.
Meanwhile, it's been two months and motorists have already killed and injured more pedestrians, cyclists and children than cyclists have in more than a decade.
So go on, have a good little moan about these cyclists jumping reds or riding with no lights. While you ignore drivers speeding, performing reckless manoeuvres and KILLING and injuring pedestrians and other road users every single day.
Get your priorities straight!

Pete, Road runner has difficulties with basic math. He also apparently believes that only cyclists answer census questions. *shrug* he wont even believe facts..... one of these days hell actually discuss someting like an adult...it wont be soon.... I look froward to him spam posting meaningless accussations as an alternative to actually discussion again.

roadrunner2013 stop using your "common sense" and look up the census table I linked in another story. 17,755 said they cycle to work, not your imaginary 30-40,000 http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do;jsessionid=pm2HRRTF3pv2rwpkzy6Bhfzn2LQL11N1cJXk08qNhZv3MRLDtv1C!-74665848!1360105125806?a=7&b=6275044&c=Cambridge&d=13&e=61&g=6405296&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1360105125806&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2567&nsjs=true&nsck=true&nssvg=false&nswid=1341

"""Don't join in the roadrunner13 camp of people who have to lie to make any point.""" lol lol lol ... says the BIGGEST liar around who reckons he has a law degree and then comes out with a quote that his mate got his licence endorsed for riding a bike while under the influence and then was corrected by at least two posters who treat him very kindly, probably because they know he's a nut case. Honestly haddock/flannel ... all i can say is you must be immune to humiliation ! How do your county clowncil colleagues put up with you ?? lol lol RAFPML!!

Just because it was in yesterdays news does not make it correct. What it does probably mean is 30% of the people who actually answered the question: How do you commute to work ? It appears that a lot of people did not answer a lot of the questions, like myself. 30-40,000 people DO NOT commute by cycle. If this was the case we would be moaning that there were too many cycles on the road. In the news accepted. Accuracy of figures denied. Have a nice evening! lol.

With 30% of cambridges population using bikes to commute you think the fat commissioner might want to crack down on all road users. Sadly no.....he wont do that....I suspect he supports old Hawkesworth who does like to let motorists who kill people out without a ban......

"""Don't join in the roadrunner13 camp of people who have to lie to make any point.""" lol lol lol ... says the BIGGEST liar around who reckons he has a law degree and then comes out with a quote that his mate got his licence endorsed for riding a bike while under the influence and then was corrected by at least two posters who treat him very kindly, probably because they know he's a nut case. Honestly haddock/flannel ... all i can say is you must be immune to humiliation ! How do your county clowncil colleagues put up with you ?? lol lol RAFPML!!